Portrait of a Thief

Name: Portrait of a Thief
Released: 1960-04-07
Cast: Frank Wilcox, Anthony George, Raymond Bailey, Henry Jones, Edward Andrews

Series: The Untouchables

Season: Season 1

Episode Number: 25

Air Date: 04/07/1960

Duration: 60 min

Chicago, 1931. Eliot Ness and his men had cracked the bootleg empire of Al Capone, by smashing his breweries and speakeasies.* But now, thousands of gallons of alcohol were coming into the city from an outside source. Ness meets with D.A. Beecher Asbury; it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out where the booze is coming from, they've found 5-gallon cans with ""Brawley Mills, Brawley, New York"" stamped on them. Chemical analysis showed the stuff is 190 proof, no doubt produced under U.S. Government permit-- but it contained no denaturant, so it is safe to drink.